I'm a writer living at the end of an eleven mile dirt road called Starvation Lane. I'll share with you some of my writing life a little more frequently than at my website where I write an essay of encouragement www.jkbooks.com. I hope you'll join me here. The house did get finished, btw. And my office is to the left looking out over the rimrock ridge.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Flooding

Not since 1948 have we seen river flows at this level. 20,000 CFS (cubic feet per second) on Sunday. It's starting to go down now so we can begin to see the islands that have been underwater. Fortunately it only seeped against the dikes and wasn't pushing into the fields. I'm always amazed at the power of water. I don't even like to take the dogs for a walk when the river is that high for fear they'll decide to jump in after a floating stick and the current will be too strong for them. So I watch from a distance and am grateful that the flow is slowing. A very wet spring for us. But everything is green, green, green! I don't know what these are but I love the color. Nice.
Back to work.

1 comment:

Having only been in Oregon a few years, I was wondering if this weather was normal or not. It does seem awfully wet - and awfully cold since I've just got back from a short trip to Texas which was anything but.